The New New Main Menu

The new New menu item consolidates some menu items that were spread around on other menus and adds two new items:

• FileBoss Window
• FileBoss in Administrator Mode

These two modes start a new instance of FileBoss with the same settings and layout as the current instance. Except, of course, that for the last item FileBoss is started in Admin Mode. (You must have Administrator level privileges for this to work.

Program Options Moved

The Options menu item has been moved from the top of the main menu to being the last item on the Edit menu.

New Items on the View Main Menu

The View menu has two new main sections.

The first new section has entries for managing the visibility of the new Tab specific items, Tab Toolbars, Status Bars, and the Tab Names (tab tabs). When these features are turned off and on using this menu they are discreet settings for normal mode and for Dual Tab mode. In other words if Dual Tab mode is active then these settings will only affect the visibility of the items when in Dual Tab mode. And when in normal mode they will only affect their visibility in that mode.

The second section turns on the new (to FileBoss at least) display modes, Icon, Small Icon, and List View. The Details View is the view that was standard in versions prior to V3 and still is the default.

 

 

Find is Now Search

The top menu item Find has been renamed to Search as it was causing a lot of confusion with other Find operations and Search is the commonly accepted name for, well, ..., searching for files.

Improved Drive Button Bar

The old drive Bar 

The old drive bar (with the square yellow buttons) showed every installed drive including CD/DVD drives and flash card readers even if they were empty. In the example to the right drive E:\ and F:\ are empty CD/DVD drives, G:\ is an empty Blu-Ray drive and drives L:\, M:\ and N:\ are empty flash card readers.

The new drive Bar 

The new drive bar in version 3.x (with the round green buttons) only displays drive that are in use i.e., that have media. In the image to the right the empty drives (E:\, F:\, G:\, L:\, M:\ and N:\) no longer have buttons representing them. But as soon as a CD or flash media is inserted FileBoss will detect it and display the appropriate button automatically.

The new drive bar also displays the which drive the active tab (the tab that has the focus) represents as shown to the right where the folder in the tab is on drive I:\.

New quick-access buttons

There are two new buttons on the version 3 drive bar.

The first is the Network button designated by the two backslashes (\\). Like the drive buttons the Network button keeps track of folders you have visited but instead of a local drive it remember network shares. This button can really speed up access to shared folders on your network as compared to navigating through the Network folders on the left.

The second is the Folders button at the far right. Clicking this button quickly toggles the display of folders in the window on the right side of the tab. As it can be toggled on and off a will depending on what you need to do at any given moment or according to the composition of the folder you are viewing.

Another improvement is that when the cursor hovers over a drive a tool-tip is displayed that shows the amount of free space available on that drive, as show to the right.